The first dream dancer and doctor (Bole Maru, the California Ghost Dance that came a generation before the one on the Plains), was Cache Creek Pomo Richard Taylor, brother to Sarah Taylor, the grandmother who raised California's foremost basket weaver, doctor, and cultural preservationist, Mabel McKay (1907-1993). A recent biography of her by Gregg Sarris, emphasizes these two elements of great cultural importance (and the fact that she dreamed basket designs; the baskets themselves had power through those designs). See Short Pomo history, part of the basketry section here.

This is part of the results of what the Pomo traditionalist women did, collecting and providing information about basketry and other valuable plants that were to be drowned (and now are drowned) when the Army Corps of Engineers closed the dam that created Lake Sonoma.